LibGuides: Nursing: RN to BSN (Online): Articles

Core Article Nursing Databases

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles in nursing journals.
CINAHL® Plus also provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937.
MEDLINE (Web of Knowledge) This link opens in a new window
Articles in medical journals/medical research compiled by the National Library of Medicine. Includes detailed and controlled medical terminology (MESH headings) for each entry, to identify and fully trace research on specific medical topics.
Subjects include biomedicine and life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.
PubMed Central This link opens in a new window
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PubMed comprises of citations for biomedical journal articles from MEDLINE (or queued to be included in MEDLINE in the future), other life science journals, and selected medical books.
The Stan State library link adds a code (?otool=cacsuslib) to tell PubMed to add a Find It! link to let you access Stan State library subscriptions or an Interlibrary Loan request form for an article.

Access to the full articles:

PubMed links to the publisher's site of most articles, and for some articles, but not all, the publishers free online access via their site.
For articles that are not free to the general public online, use the University Library (linked via Find It! or by visiting the library website) to access content already purchased by Stan State (or to have the library acquire a copy for you).

PubMed vs. MEDLINE

Both databases search a similar group of medical literature (mostly medical journals) compiled by the NLM. PubMed includes "future MEDLINE" articles that have not yet been fully indexed (assigned detailed MeSH / Medical Subject Headings), as well as a small amount of additional content (from life sciences journals and selected medical books).
All MEDLINE content is from a medical journals and all content includes detailed indexing according to carefully conrolled and applied Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), insuring all research on a specific content is accessible under standardized terms.

General / Interdisciplinary Databases

OneSearch (Everything @ Stan State) This link opens in a new window
Search for physical books shelved in the Stan State library or available by request via CSU+, books available online, articles and more. Articles results include peer-reviewed journals & selected magazines.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Google's index of scholarly research in selected journal articles and books. On campus will often automatically link to articles provided by the University Library. (Add off-campus access to Stanislaus subscription by adding Stanislaus under "My Library Links" on your Google Scholar settings/profile.)

Additional Databases with Significant Nursing Content

JoVE Science Education: Clinical Skills This link opens in a new window
Videos on medical and nursing practice, including physical examinations, emergency medicine and critical care, and nursing skills.
75 videos covering nursing skills, physical examinations, and selected special topics
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles published in 900+ selected Elsevier journals (1998 - present).
Providing access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and health journals that span major scientific disciplines. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made free for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the authors' choice of user license.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Search for articles from a very large but selective list of high-impact research journals. Provides complete reference list for covered journals, robust citation tracing tools and research metrics. Includes selected book chapters and conference proceedings.
General Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
General Science Full Text™ provides full text from periodicals dating back to 1995, in addition to indexing and abstracts for periodicals back to 1984.
Subject coverage includes astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, conservation, health & medicine, oceanography, physics, zoology and much more.
Wiley Online This link opens in a new window
Extensive multidisciplinary collections with access to articles from journals, books, and multi-volume reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Electronic Journals

If you are looking for journal articles on your topic, search an article database like CINAHL Plus with Full-Text (or other resources listed under Finding Articles). To browse within a specific journal (or collection of journals), in the collections below choose or search for a specific journal name, and you can look at the contents of specific years, volumes, and issues.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Primarily a database to search for articles in nursing journals (indexes over 5000 journals), also serves as the library's primary subscription to 700 journals (includes the full-text of these 700 journals).
CINAHL® Plus also provides indexing for more than 5,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 4 million records dating back to 1937.
Ovid Nursing Full-Text This link opens in a new window
Full text of 40 current LWW nursing journals and older content from Kluwer journals.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Full-text of articles published in 900+ selected Elsevier journals (1998 - present).
Providing access to peer-reviewed scientific, technical, and health journals that span major scientific disciplines. Articles published open access are peer-reviewed and made free for everyone to read, download and reuse in line with the authors' choice of user license.
Wiley Online This link opens in a new window
Extensive multidisciplinary collections with access to articles from journals, books, and multi-volume reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Stan State Library Journals in Nursing
University Library subscriptions to selected online journals in Nursing.
Health Sciences Journals
University Library subscriptions to online journals in medicine, public health, and related fields (listed by title of the journal).

Getting the Text of Articles

Searching a database will provide citations to scholarly journal articles and other scientific research.

To access the full-article, look for links to:

If there are no full-text links, use Find It! to see if article is available in another library subscription.

Note: Distance education students (including RN to BSN online program) do not have to visit the library for Print/Microform journals but can use the "Send your citation to a librarian" link to request a PDF copy be scanned and sent via email.

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